Word: bend
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Louis is in trouble and will have a hard time finishing higher than fifth. Manager Solly Hemus lost his best pitcher, Jones, to the Giants and has little to replace him. Vinegar Bend Mizell and Larry Jackson are only so-so and behind them, there is little besides a highly touted rookie, Ernie Broglio. Hard-hitting Joe Cunningham (.312) is set at first as is Don Blasingame at second. There is a gaping hole at short which may have to be filled with Alex Grammas, who would have trouble hitting .300 in the Little Leagues. Ken Boyer, an almost-great...
...really was; and the illusion is further fostered by Heroine Amanda Blake as Kitty, who is "obviously not selling chocolate bars." Arness can shake hands with grandma (Colt .45) almost as fast as the next man, and he wears his pants so tight he can't bend over. Minneapolis-born, wounded at Anzio, he rode with the posse in a few John Wayne westerns. Gunsmoke pays him $2,000 a week for 39 weeks, and on top of that, he says, "I can make $100,000 a year in personal appearances, just working weekends...
...think that artists ought to recognize this, that there is no moral reason why art ought to go on if it has nothing further to express. Nor is there any moral or esthetic reason why the public ought to bend the knee in reverence before the mere fact...
...movie, She Done Him Wrong (1933), was a remake of Broadway's Diamond Lil and brought her measure to measure with Mae West's 38-24-38. "I like 'em tight, girls," growled Mae, and was soon jammed into costumes in which she could not "lie, bend or sit." So that West could relax a bit between takes, a board was set up for her to lean against. Marlene Dietrich, arriving for a fitting, "quickly peels down, revealing the most beautiful French lingerie I've ever seen, all white, just a touch of lace...
DIESEL TAXICABS are catching on in New York, Washington, South Bend and San Francisco as cabbies switch to West Germany's Mercedes-Benz because of durability and lower fuel costs...